I’m reprinting this 1912 photo that I posted several days ago. I had fun trying to reproduce the look of cows in a field when I took the picture of the paper cows and thought you might enjoy seeing this photo again. Photo source: Kimball’s Dairy Farmer Magazine (June 1, 1912)

11 thoughts on “Paper Cow Directions”

I can’t wait to see your Granma make her break for freedom! With all the cows you would have fit right in with the Sepia Saturday theme of cattle. I can just picture you cutting out those little cows and posing them while your husband shakes his head and thinks you’ve about gone over the brink. ;-D

Ha ha ha… won’t be long now and poor old Helena will be making her “dash for liberty”. She’s such a typical teen, eh? …
We sure do need to “play” sometimes Sheryl. My last couple of blogs have me a bit sad so am having fun taking a totally different “tack” with the present one. I also have a fun blog title “Weird, Wild & Wonderful” where I go to “play” when the Family History bizzo gets a bit heavy.
Love the cows and know my youngest grandson will have fun making them with me… esp when I show him where they came from and tell him the story. He’ll be impressed 🙂 … thanks

I wonder how Helena felt about cows when she grew older. Did she shriek in horror at the sight of one, or did they feel like familiar old friends, when her days of watching them were finally over (and she had made her dash for liberty!) I love your paper cows, you can tell your husband that at least one blogging friend appreciated them. 🙂

My grandmother married a dairy farmer so she spent her entire life around cows. I guess (in a long term sense) that she never made a dash for liberty from cows. But I also think that they felt like familiar old friends as the years passed. I can remember when she was very elderly, after my grandfather died, that she sometimes helped her adult son feed his cows. There was no way that she needed to do that–and at that point in her life she probably slowed my uncle down– but she did it because she enjoyed being part of the farm routines.